Comparison of Urban-Rural Tree Growth Response to Climate in the Eastern U.S. for the years 1990-2014

Climate is an important driver of tree growth in forests of the eastern U.S. Urbanization can augment the growing conditions of trees in ways that could change the sensitivity of radial growth to climate stressors such as excessive heat and water stress. This dataset include tree ring chronologies (1990-2014) in the form of basal area increment for canopy oak and maples trees from paired urban and nearby rural reference forest sites in Baltimore, Maryland, New York City, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts. Also included are metrics of heat stress and water stress from 1990-2014.

气候是美国东部森林树木生长的关键驱动因子。城市化可通过调整树木生长环境的途径，改变其径向生长（radial growth）对极端高温、水分胁迫等气候胁迫因子的敏感性。本数据集包含1990-2014年的树木年轮年表（tree ring chronologies），数据以断面积增量（basal area increment）的形式呈现，样本取自马里兰州巴尔的摩市、纽约州纽约市及马萨诸塞州波士顿市的配对城市与邻近乡村参照林样地中的冠层栎树与槭树。此外，数据集还收录了1990-2014年的高温胁迫与水分胁迫指标。